I seem to be in a pattern of being awake from 2 or 3 pm until 5 or 6 pm and then fallling asleep again, so I wake later than I meant to and meditating first thing means starting the active day even later. But I'm still doing it first thing, taking advantage of the fact that I CAN do so this week of not going to the office, whereas normally if I'm late that's it until the evening.
Maybe those who find it hard to 'take' the time for meditation instead of spending it with loved ones could focus on how meditation lightens the quality of your presence to the benefit of those around you? Even though the central meditation has to be to do it for yourself, I think, there's no two ways about it.
Apropos lightening presences, there's a (long!) article on a programmer/user-interface blog I read called Creating Passionate Users which is about emotional transfer effects. Executive summary: being around people who are generally inclined to be happy and positive, makes you happy and productive; being around people who are generally inclined to be unhappy and negative, makes you unhappy and unproductive. Old news, but nice to see it well stated and given a proper neurological basis ("mirror neurons" is the buzzword, and your mother was right about that too).
I wish everybody good health and non-painful feet.
Ah, Jean, and Beth, that's been my sleep pattern at least 3 nights a week for about 15 years now... as long as I can get back to sleep around 6am for an hour or so, I can make it through the day. Otherwise, oh it's exhaustion city, glum de dum - then I remember monks who get up at 3 am :)
Negative people are hard to be with, I agree. Self-pitying and angry, arrogant and bitchy. It's an individual call as to how to handle it. Lay low to stay out of the line of fire, or emphatically insist that they are not to talk/foist their 'stuff' on you. Sometimes, however, people walk around phenomenally depressed, and what you do about that I don't know. Empathy and compassion.
When you find yourself in the position of 'scapegoat,' oh, that's the hardest because you find your own anger building under the surface at the unfair treatment. As a temp worker I have experienced this often enough. So I simply don't do those jobs anymore, I specialize in 'reception,' where everyone is nice, afterall you represent 'the company' for the short time you're there.
So there are different strategies for different situations. It's a dance, and important to remain agile and caring and loving.
Though sometimes you need to do very long meditations to re-balance yourself, and refind your brightness and energy.
Jean and Brenda, I too have a tendency to wake around 2 or 3 for a while. What's with that? But it gives me opportunities to focus on my breaths, which I find often leads me back to sleep.
Jean, thanks for the suggestion on lightening the quality of presence for the benefit of others. One of my frustrations has been that, despite focusing on the many benefits I see to meditation (the one you mention being among them), I still have difficulty getting of the "hump" of separating from what I'm doing at the moment and JUST GETTING STARTED. This weekend, thinking back to some thing Dale said about the environment one meditates in, I purchased a little statue to hold a candle, hoping that it will serve as just another little invitation to come sit. Another unavoidable reminder that the meditating is waiting to be done.
My five minutes this morning turned into 15 by the time I looked at the clock.
Udge, nice to see you back here and I'll check out the article.
Aargh, I see I said 'central meditation' when I meant 'central motivation' this morning... this is why I don't tend to log on first thing.
I went to a meditation session at a FWBO centre today - the first people I ever meditated with. I liked it very much and it left me wondering if I should go back there, or if this is a regressive, insecure 'wanting to go back to Mummy' thing... quite painful and confusing and difficult to stay with the feeling rather than pushing it away.
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Good morning.
I seem to be in a pattern of being awake from 2 or 3 pm until 5 or 6 pm and then fallling asleep again, so I wake later than I meant to and meditating first thing means starting the active day even later. But I'm still doing it first thing, taking advantage of the fact that I CAN do so this week of not going to the office, whereas normally if I'm late that's it until the evening.
Maybe those who find it hard to 'take' the time for meditation instead of spending it with loved ones could focus on how meditation lightens the quality of your presence to the benefit of those around you? Even though the central meditation has to be to do it for yourself, I think, there's no two ways about it.
Love to all of you.
Clearly only half awake - I meant am each time I said pm, of course.
I'm doing the same thing, Jean. Going back to sleep now!
Apropos lightening presences, there's a (long!) article on a programmer/user-interface blog I read called Creating Passionate Users which is about emotional transfer effects. Executive summary: being around people who are generally inclined to be happy and positive, makes you happy and productive; being around people who are generally inclined to be unhappy and negative, makes you unhappy and unproductive. Old news, but nice to see it well stated and given a proper neurological basis ("mirror neurons" is the buzzword, and your mother was right about that too).
I wish everybody good health and non-painful feet.
Ah, Jean, and Beth, that's been my sleep pattern at least 3 nights a week for about 15 years now... as long as I can get back to sleep around 6am for an hour or so, I can make it through the day. Otherwise, oh it's exhaustion city, glum de dum - then I remember monks who get up at 3 am :)
Negative people are hard to be with, I agree. Self-pitying and angry, arrogant and bitchy. It's an individual call as to how to handle it. Lay low to stay out of the line of fire, or emphatically insist that they are not to talk/foist their 'stuff' on you. Sometimes, however, people walk around phenomenally depressed, and what you do about that I don't know. Empathy and compassion.
When you find yourself in the position of 'scapegoat,' oh, that's the hardest because you find your own anger building under the surface at the unfair treatment. As a temp worker I have experienced this often enough. So I simply don't do those jobs anymore, I specialize in 'reception,' where everyone is nice, afterall you represent 'the company' for the short time you're there.
So there are different strategies for different situations. It's a dance, and important to remain agile and caring and loving.
Though sometimes you need to do very long meditations to re-balance yourself, and refind your brightness and energy.
Jean and Brenda, I too have a tendency to wake around 2 or 3 for a while. What's with that? But it gives me opportunities to focus on my breaths, which I find often leads me back to sleep.
Jean, thanks for the suggestion on lightening the quality of presence for the benefit of others. One of my frustrations has been that, despite focusing on the many benefits I see to meditation (the one you mention being among them), I still have difficulty getting of the "hump" of separating from what I'm doing at the moment and JUST GETTING STARTED. This weekend, thinking back to some thing Dale said about the environment one meditates in, I purchased a little statue to hold a candle, hoping that it will serve as just another little invitation to come sit. Another unavoidable reminder that the meditating is waiting to be done.
My five minutes this morning turned into 15 by the time I looked at the clock.
Udge, nice to see you back here and I'll check out the article.
Aargh, I see I said 'central meditation' when I meant 'central motivation' this morning... this is why I don't tend to log on first thing.
I went to a meditation session at a FWBO centre today - the first people I ever meditated with. I liked it very much and it left me wondering if I should go back there, or if this is a regressive, insecure 'wanting to go back to Mummy' thing... quite painful and confusing and difficult to stay with the feeling rather than pushing it away.
Jean, no worries. I got your meaning. If it's any comfort, my message was riddled with typos, too!
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